Bug#491840: moving tomboy to Recommends doesn't archieve the desired effect

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 01:48:48PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 22 juillet 2008 à 13:06 +0200, Robert Millan a écrit :
> > Please note that moving packages to Recommends doesn't exclude them from the
> > default install anymore, since APT defaults to including Recommends starting
> > with lenny.
> > 
> > I'm aware that tasksel uses --no-install-recommends, which would make one
> > think Recommends aren't dragged in, but this is in fact not true (they will
> > be dragged in as soon as the packages are upgraded).
> 
> Erm, I don’t think so. AFAIK packages which are already recommended by
> the installed version are not installed when the package is upgraded.

I just verified, and you are right.

Looking at #388290, though, I think it'd still be a good idea to move it (or
otherwise coordinate with tasksel maintainers so that another metapackage like
gnome-desktop-environment can take its place when Recommends are enabled).

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Robert Millan

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